BERLIN, April 16, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The German government said Wednesday that it was evacuating around 24 of its nationals from the war-battered Gaza Strip.

"There is currently an operation underway in close cooperation with the Israeli authorities to allow people to leave", foreign ministry spokesman Christian Wagner told journalists at a regular press conference.

He said "roughly two dozen" Germans were leaving the territory.

He added that there remained "a small, single-digit number" of other Germans whom the authorities were aware of in Gaza and who wish to leave. 
Earlier this month Germany said that 19 of its citizens and 14 of their relatives had been evacuated from Gaza.

Israel has resumed intense aerial and ground assaults after a ceasefire deal that came into effect on January 19 fell apart two months later over differences regarding its next phase.

Hundreds of thousands of people have since been displaced, and Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the country would keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering the territory.